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marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"
fraught(p): filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense" |
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# appliance: a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
# the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
# an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
# an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
# lash-up: any improvised arrangement for temporary use
# devisal: the act of devising something |
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# lissome: moving and bending with ease
# limber: (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination"
# make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"
# limber: (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely |
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# cryptic: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors ...
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# difficult or impossible to comprehend, fathom or interpret
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/inscrutable
# inscrutably - in an inscrutable manner |
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# civil order: the form of government of a social organization
# a politically organized unit |
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# compare critically; of texts
# to assemble in proper sequence; "collate the papers" |
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# auguring favorable circumstances and good luck; "an auspicious beginning for the campaign"
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# An auspice (Latin: auspicium from auspex, is literally "one who looks at birds",) a diviner who reads omens from the observed flight of birds. ...
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# Of good omen; indicating future success; Conducive to success; Marked by success; prosperous |
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